What comes to your mind when you think of Russia? Fyodor [Dostoevsky] and Moscow? Sputnik and bears? Vodka and matryoshkas? Or Russian hackers?

Positive Russian hackers, organizers of the Positive Hack Days 2012 forum on practical information security invite you to participate in the forum as a speaker.

Positive Hack Days is a unique event, where the elite of the hacker world, leaders in the information security industry and the Internet community meet face to face to join their efforts to cooperate in addressing the most topical issues of the IT world.

The program of Positive Hack Days includes:
- round tables and discussions for business audience
- seminars and workshops for experts and hackers
- security challenges for all comers
- CTF and HackQuest contests

SELECTION PRINCIPLES
There are no strict restrictions for participants: anyone from a novice to a recognized expert in information security can be a speaker. Our goal is to facilitate animated, informal communication between all representatives of the information security industry.

The main requirements are an interesting topic concerning information security, novelty and urgency of the issues under consideration, professionalism and competence.

The organizers will consider every single application and select the best ones.

TOPICS
Themes of the reports should be relevant to information security. We are mostly interested in the following topics:
- security of critical information systems
- fraud management
- cybercrimes and investigation of incidents
- national and corporate security in the WikiLeaks epoch
- cyberwar and cyber spying
- protection of cloud computing and virtual infrastructure
- prevention of 0-day attacks
- forensics
- protection against DDoS
- applied cryptography
- security of industrial control systems (SCADA)
- security of business applications and ERP
- communication network security
- application security
If your report does not concern any of the above topics but covers some other aspect of information security, and you believe it will be interesting for the community, please, feel free to apply.

Note: We will not accept reports aimed at promoting certain products, services, or companies. We appreciate your understanding.

APPLICATION
Participation application should contain the following information:
- Information about the speaker
- first and last name
- CV (educational and professional background, titles, main professional achievements)
- residence (country, city)
- contact information (telephone number, email)
- Information about the report
- title
- brief summary (500 characters)
- detailed outline
- report status (whether it was published previously, where)
We highly encourage and will favor submissions contains any of the following information: tool, slides, whitepaper
It is desirable that the reports be in Russian or English.

HOW TO APPLY
Email us your application with all the required information.
The applications for participation as a speaker will be accepted in two stages:
the first stage from December 15, 2011 to January 30, 2012;
the second stage from February 20, 2012 to April 16, 2012.